 When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch. Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his...  the edinburgh review - Pàgina 20per david william - 1820Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 356 pàgines
...shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto Gare le Corbeau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pàgines
...shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto Gare le Corbeau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...general good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had HO sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning,... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - 1828 - 308 pàgines
...bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing .the motto Gare Ic Corbeau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...extremities of the lists, the public expectation was straiaed to the highest pitch. Few argued the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 852 pàgines
...shield bore a raven m full flight, holding in its claws a ekull, and bearing the motto, Gore It Corbtau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...secured the general good wishes of the spectators. [ClIAP. IX. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions vanished from their posts... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 pàgines
...for by my honor you will need both." Having expressed himself thus confidently, he reined his horse backwards down the slope which he had ascended, and...than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the center of the lists with the shock of a tliunIn this second encounter,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 576 pàgines
...shield bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto Gore le Corleau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the genera] good wishes of the spectators. The trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the champions... | |
 | Pierre François Merlet - 1837 - 314 pàgines
...raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeau. When the champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities...than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunder-bolt. The lances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 pàgines
...bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare Is Corbeau. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...trumpets had no sooner given the signal, than the cham« pions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 pàgines
...bore a raven in full flight, holding in its claws a skull, and bearing the motto, Gare le Corbeait. When the two champions stood opposed to each other...than the champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning, and closed in the centre of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 728 pàgines
...holding in its claws a skull, and bcarmg Ihe motto, flare le Corbeau. When the two champions stood op: other at the two extremities of the lists, the public...terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courflge and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators. the champions vanished from... | |
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